Santa Cruz was Seville's judería until the expulsions, and its street plan is still medieval: lanes narrow enough to touch both walls, small squares appearing without warning, orange trees and iron grilles.
⭐ The narrowness is functional, not picturesque — it is how you keep a street shaded in a city this hot. Walking it at midday is noticeably cooler than the open plazas.
⚠️ It is also directly beside the cathedral, so the outer lanes are wall-to-wall menus. Walk further in; the difference in price and quality over two hundred metres is remarkable.
Our tip
Get deliberately lost, and eat at least four streets from the cathedral.
Barrio de Santa Cruz, photographed
